Overheard on the tennis court, two players were joking about which world leaders they'd like to assassinate and one suggested Netanyahu, the other said "He's too well protected"and then she added, "Everybody knows Trump is Netanyahu's little bitch."

Joshua Clover on Lady Gaga back in 2010:

"She looked back with nostalgia at the brief period when she had recognized no one and understood nothing." This lovely little sentence comes to you from A SORROW BEYOND DREAMS.

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Endless gratitude to @yourimpossiblevoice.com for publishing my essays & stories since 2017, and to @koneensaatio.fi for believing in and supporting my novels, The Gaza Trilogy.

#NakbaDay

Today is the official pub date for this little freak of a novella by the legendary Mario Bellatin and translated by me.

Clarice: “I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone...

I just read the wikipedia page of Alexander Zverev's girlfriend Sophia Tomalla (actress and model) and it was very much like a Bolaño short story.

Out in April